You Almost Knew This Would Be Coming

No... not a flu pandemic. You knew that the The Party Of No always winds up regretting their consistently poor luck in choosing the wrong things to say "no" to at the wrong time. Thus spake Karl Rove 3 months ago in The Wall Street Journal complaining about the Democrats crazy-ass budget bloat:

"There's also $4 billion for health programs like obesity control and smoking cessation, $2 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $462 million for the Centers for Disease Control, and $900 million for pandemic flu preparations."

And if that isn't bad enough, this Karl Rove paragraph managed to convince Republican Senators to crow about their own efforts to strip pandemic flu preparations out of the new budget just a month before the newest "everybody-freak-out and do the you flu bugaboo" craze.

After meeting with Mr. Obama, Sen. Collins expressed concern about a number of spending provisions, including $780 million for pandemic-flu preparedness.

These guys couldn't catch a break if it hit them in the head.

Just to add a little bit of extra oops as a kicker? The Republicans bitched enough about this particular expenditure that they succeeded in getting it yanked out of the budget. Yup: The Republicans managed to strip the government budget of funding for flu pandemic preparation a month before another season of the face mask as fashion accessory came to town.

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UPDATE:

Touché: Democrat Schumer took at jab at the same funding himself. Too bad Republicans didn't find and publish that zinger earlier: This is an example of the "look who" tit being better than the "you too" tat.